Hostinger Review: See what features make Hostinger a great choice

It’s fair to say that if you’re starting an online business or providing a service, having a good product isn’t enough. In the 21st century, a significant selling point is a brand image. The age of the internet requires you to have a robust online presence. Hostinger offers all the tools an average user will ever need when achieving that, for a very fair price.

Let’s start off with a little bit of history and background. The company started off in 2004, bootstrapped in Lithuania, the prime ground for recent tech-related startups. Ever since then, the company was met with positive reviews and relatively rapid growth of its user base. By 2017 the company could boast of having over 29 million users.

So what does Hostinger bring to the table? Can you truly get all that you need to start and maintain a solid web-presence? The short answer is yes.

The best features Hostinger offer:

Unlimited resources.

Industry leading uptime.

Responsive customer support 24/7.

CMS optimized hosting.

A powerful control panel.

An incredibly competitive price.

The long answer gets into some specifics. Let’s start with the basics – resources. Coming in to see the term “unlimited” we ended up a bit skeptical. But Hostinger defies expectations and indeed offers up essentially unlimited bandwidth and space. Standard limitations like the size of individual files do apply, but all together the term “unlimited” is not misleading. With the elephant out of the room, we can move on to other features.

Next up, on the table, we have the advertised uptime of 99.9%. It’s crucial to have a solid uptime when your well being depends on it. In this regard, Hostinger does shine. No connectivity, server or load issues experienced during our testing period.

One of the main points when using a web hosting service is the fact that you don’t need to take care of the backend. That’s the point of not hosting your own server. In this case, we can say that Hostinger goes above and beyond. You do not need to worry about backend related issues, and depending on your plan, you are covered with a customer support team the company calls “ the customer success team.” There is no ticketing system, but there really isn’t a need for one, when you receive a representative, in our experience, within two or three minutes. Quick, professional, casual. The “customer success” team successfully shines.

With WordPress being a core CMS that holds up millions of websites in the world, we had to test WordPress performance. We can happily say that Hostinger does a great job of optimizing the platform’s performance. The speed statistics meet the hype and do show great performance on a WordPress website.

Arguably the most surprising part about Hostinger is the price tag. There aren’t any hidden fees or major features that are locked behind paywalls. The features and price are as advertised. Judging by the competition this might just be the most competitive price on the market at this moment. At the time of writing Hostinger is running a promotion during which their most popular plan – “Premium Shared Hosting” is 71% off, cutting the price down to a minuscule $3.49/month.

Unlimited resources, customer support round the clock, every day of the year, optimization for the main CMS’ in use, how much will all of this cost? Surprisingly enough, it’s an incredibly fair price. A small website can make due with a “Single Shared Hosting” plan for $0.80/month. The main and most popular plan is the “Premium Shared Hosting” plan for $3.49/month. More than enough power for the majority of private projects, a powerful control panel, and some top-notch features packaged for a good price and promises of free services like SSL certificates, domain name registration, and other features. Hostinger delivers what’s promised and then some, perfectly suiting a small to medium size project.

Hostinger VPS service

One of the keys to the Hostinger success is their great price to features ratio. Simply speaking, their hosting tiers are more generous than that of their competitors. And the numbers speak for themselves – every day, over 20,000 new clients decide to host with Hostinger, making it one of the fastest growing companies in the market. So how does their VPS offer look like in details. As of now, the company offers six different pricing tiers. Thanks to that, they can aim their offer at both beginners who are just getting their feet wet in the virtual private servers’ environment and small to medium businesses which need an affordable but reliable way to control the growing number of visitors and occasional traffic spikes.

The discounted prices range from $4.99 for the basic tier with 1GB RAM and 20GB storage all the way to an 8GB RAM and 160GB storage tier at $65.56 per month. Naturally, as the below prices are discounted, you will have to pay slightly more once you renew.